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Tag: rifts
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Sep/2008
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Bite Sized Mind Candy in RPGs
Two stories from RPG books stick in my mind. The first one is from Cyberpunk 2020. It's most easily found in the Deep Space supplement, but I think it briefly appears in the corebook as well. It's a story about how a netrunner performed a run out to the Voyager 2 probe outside of our solar system. And... that's about it. Oh yeah, the hacker planted an image of a camel and then a camel exploding along with the message of "Look at how far I went to smoke a camel," but that'... Read More
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18
Sep/2008
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The Sweatshop: Episode 3: Interpreting Palladium Combat
Maybe Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles ISN'T so bad. After all, it's provided me many hours of entertainment already by way of simply hunting down the ways it utterly fails to emulate its namesake. Last night I found myself reading it and getting a bit of a nostalgia groove on for games of Invid slaying in years gone by. That's when I wandered headfirst into the combat section and it dawned on me that combat had changed much more than I realized. First, it would be a good idea f... Read More
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10
Sep/2008
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The Sweatshop: Episode 2: Missiles
It's time for the second installment of The Sweatshop, and this time the focus will be on Robotech and Macross II, the Palladium games ostensibly adapted for anime mecha action. As usual, the Palladium rules leave quite a bit to be desired, but I'm going to focus on the single aspect of guided missiles for this episode. To explain what I'm going to patch today, let's say you're watching Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, the original Robotech series, or Macross II. The character in the... Read More
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04
Sep/2008
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The Sweatshop Episode 1
So, I had an idea I'd try to get myself to do a new kind of "feature" for my blog. I like bitching about Palladium's horribly produced games, and I like tinkering, so why not combine the two passions? I identify something which drives me crazy about a Palladium game, then I offer something resembling a localized patch. Maybe it will help someone out there both in the aspects of knowing they're not alone noticing how broken the rules are, and in trying to actually gather some de... Read More
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06
May/2008
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Post Traumatic Rifts Disorder
This is an oldie, but I feel the need to share it again: It was well over a decade ago (more like getting close to two decades now). I had read rifts from cover to cover and was psyched to run it. My game group at the time was similarly excited. At this point in our gaming lives, we were pretty well versed in the Palladium MDC system. We had been playing a regular Robotech campaign for at least 2 years. So, we were familiar with how things worked. We weren't total n00bz. Everyone found ch... Read More
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